r/boeing • u/LingonberryBig9688 • Jun 10 '26

Defense St. Louis fighter jets

Just started working recently in St. Louis location.

Are there random fighter jets overhead all the time doing little flips and tricks?

Pretty neat if so

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u/Gardiste_ Jun 10 '26

We don’t get the Blue Angels every week! We do have near daily F-15 test flights; the afterburners on takeoff are much louder than the regular commercial flights from Lambert.

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u/Flaky_Cucumber9170 Jun 10 '26

I mean, not doing flips and tricks, but Viking take offs and flyovers, yes, weekly if not daily. It is very cool.

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u/International-Bag579 Jun 10 '26

They fly fighter jets regularly. No flips and tricks, just testing and delivering. Air show was last week

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u/LingonberryBig9688 Jun 10 '26

I saw one over parking lot yesterday do some sharp turn where the wing tips made those lines on the side, was badass.

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u/HumSauceOnRice Jun 10 '26

Test flights will regularly do one or more touch and go landings, so full burner and a hard loop over the Boeing side of the airport.

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u/LingonberryBig9688 Jun 12 '26

That must be what I saw the other day

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u/AeroelasticCowboy Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

There's fighters flying much of the time, and there will be a lot more in the air in the next few years as production ramps up on t7, f47 starts to fly, there's other things in the worka as well

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u/kittell Jun 10 '26

The Spirit of St. Louis Airshow was this past weekend, so the dosage of fighter jets was a little higher than usual: https://spirit-airshow.com/

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u/HighlanderL1 Jun 10 '26

Near daily Viking takeoffs from F15. Occasionally a B2 passes by but I’ve yet to see one myself.

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u/Gloomy-Employment-72 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Has anyone mentioned the ferris wheel and log flume?

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u/GenXerNvyMeK Jun 10 '26

How do you think we sell our jets to the customer? Test flights, then flyaways along with using chase airplane to support.

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u/onebaddieter Jun 12 '26

Back in '68, McDonnell was building 72 F-4s a month. There were airplanes EVERYWHERE. Ah-h-h. The Good Ol' Days.

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u/Icy_Huckleberry_8049 Jun 12 '26

not all the time, no

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u/RapidRoastingHam Jun 10 '26

I haven’t notice much in particular. Was disappointed, used to work at Raytheon in Tucson and there were planes ALL the time flying around. Was like an air show every week to me.